Lloyd Wolf Photographer

Kotel | Circles Within Circles

2012-01-25T14:27:00.004-05:00

I have just created a new image for "Circles Within Circles: Jewish Time Frames," the series I have been collaborating on with poet Sherri Waas Shunfenthal.

This new collage is titled "Kotel 2."

The Kotel HaMaariv ( ותל המערבי ) is the western wall of the ancient Jewish temple in Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as the "Wailing Wall."

Circles Within Circles will next be exhibited at the Alper JCC in Miami, Florida in May 2012.

Recent published images | Havdalah

2012-01-23T14:01:00.004-05:00

A suite of my photographs depicting havdalah, the Jewish ritual marking the end of the Sabbath, are featured in the current issue of Jewish Women International Magazine.

Special thanks to photo editor Alison Southworth of TMG.

American Investigations | Buildings: Bladensburg Road NE, DC

2012-01-02T10:04:00.003-05:00

Old School DC: 1200 block of Bladensburg Road, NE.

Photographed December 30, 2011.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2012

2012-01-01T17:39:00.001-05:00

DCJCC Volunteer Day of Service 2011

2011-12-26T21:10:00.010-05:00

For the 25th year, over 0ne thousand volunteers from the DC Jewish Community Center helped out across the city on Christmas day. This was my 20th year documenting the effort.

Please visit:
www.washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer
for more information, and for learning about opportunities to serve.

Thank you again to the leadership and energy of Erica Steen, Randy Bacon, and Gena Schoen of the DCJCC, and to Ruth Stromberg, who assists me with gathering captions, good cheer, and kindness.

Pictured sites include the Father McKenna Center, Loaves and Fishes, DC Central Kitchen, CCNV, Change Inc., activities helping the homeless in Franklin Square Park by JAM-DC (Jews and Muslims DC, and the DCJCC blood drive.

Arlington Photographic Documentary Project | Parkington

2011-11-28T11:00:00.006-05:00

The Arlington County Library's blog has just posted one of my images from the Arlington Photographic Documentary Project. It depicts the former Hecht department store's annual Christmas display in front of the old Parkington Shopping Center in December 1979, at the corner of N. Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard (on the site currently occupied by the Ballston Common Mall).

The Arlington County Documentary Project is an extensive black-and white record of Arlington, Virginia, created in 1979 and 1980, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant. I collaborated with photographer Paula Endo in this work. A book, Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s chronicling the work done in the survey grant program, including information about the Arlington project, is available through Amazon.

Exhibition: GIVING THANKS | חסד

2011-11-26T09:51:00.007-05:00

Come to a reception and view photographs by Lloyd Wolf from the past two decades of the Washington DC Jewish Community Center's annual December 25th (D25) Days of Service.

These compelling images depict volunteers over the years at many DC area sites preparing food for the hungry and needy, repairing and upgrading homeless shelters, schools, and low-income housing, comforting the sick, cheering the elderly shut-in, and directly aiding others in need, as well as depicting some of the sites and people being served on this annual Christmas day service event.

The photographs will be on display from November 29, 2011 through January 31, 2012.

The reception will be from 6:30 to 7:30 PM on Wednesday December 14th, at the DCJCC.
1529 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036 | (202) 518-9400
http://www.dcjcc.org
The exhibition is hosted by the Morris Cafritz Center for Community Service at the DCJCC.
http://washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer

Light refreshments will be available.

Many thanks to the DCJCC's volunteer director Erica Steen, and program manager Joshua Ford, for their sponsorship, direction, and encouragement.

View the Facebook invitation.

Jay Krasnow has kindly commented on this work on his blog, ArtomaticVoyage. Take a look.

University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble

2011-11-15T17:19:00.007-05:00

Frank London, Grammy-winning composer and renowned klezmer musician, was the guest artist this year for workshops and a concert by the University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble. The Ensemble, now in it's sixth year, is led by UVA's Director of Music Performance, virtuoso clarinetist Dr. Joel Rubin.

Joanne Bland- civil rights pioneer

2011-11-04T10:41:00.004-05:00

Joanne Bland was an eleven-year-old civil rights marcher in Selma, Alabama, when she, along with hundreds of others, was beaten and jailed by Alabama state troopers while crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge in 1965, in what has come to be known to history as "Bloody Sunday."

She has remained an activist, and is co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma.

These portraits were made in Washington, DC, where she spoke to the students and supporters of Operation Understanding DC. She spoke of her work, hopes, and of passing on the legacy of courageous activism for human dignity. She has met in Selma with over 400 OUDC participants over the past seventeen years, sharing her story and the continuing history of struggle for justice and fairness for all.

Some recent images | a continuing inventory for the eye

2011-11-01T14:29:00.008-05:00

Visual flotsam and jetsam from a couple of weddings, and quite obviously, from elsewhere.

My life and work take me to many different worlds, most not far from home.

These visions held my consciousness, and rang out to be really seen...

Life.

Halloween 2011

2011-11-01T11:45:00.009-05:00

A few of my photos from Nadine Bloch's 25th annual Halloween party extraordinaire, in Takoma Park, Maryland.

A few more images of the bash were made by a photographer from the Takoma Voice.

And a wish for refuah shlemah to Tom Shepherd.

Portrait of a man on the street

2011-10-31T10:22:00.004-05:00

I photographed this gentleman in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Virginia.

He was cooking barbeque at Big Daddy's old-school grill during the Marine Marathon.

Marathon

2011-10-31T10:10:00.005-05:00

I covered the 36th annual Marine Corps Marathon for the Rosslyn BID's magazine.

Thirty thousand runners took part in what is termed "the people's marathon."

Woman in a hurry | Capitol Hill

2011-10-27T09:21:00.002-05:00

While on assignment, I paused to photograph this Capitol Hill staffer striding down the halls of the Rayburn Congressional Office Building.

Young woman on a mission... and time passing.

Beach suites: sand sky sea

2011-10-10T12:27:00.006-05:00

Rehoboth, Delaware: September 2011

Beach suites: sights

2011-10-10T12:10:00.009-05:00

Lewes and Rehoboth, Delaware: September 2011

Beach suites: People

2011-10-10T11:54:00.009-05:00

Beach suites: Ruth & Ø

2011-10-10T11:45:00.004-05:00

From Rehoboth, Delaware/vacation 2011

"Belle" | '57 Chevy

2011-10-09T13:52:00.005-05:00

This is a bit off my beaten track visually and otherwise, but I recently had the great pleasure of photographing "Belle," a beautifully restored award-winning 1957 Chevy BelAir, owned and maintained by John Pappas. John is quite a bon vivant, who also maintains an award-winning Camaro and his original 1968 BSA motorcycle one-cylinder, "Thumper."

Portrait of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Nobel Peace Prize recipient

2011-10-07T07:32:00.004-05:00

I made this portrait of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, a couple of years ago in Washington, DC.

It was announced today that she will share the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with two other women, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman, a Yemeni pro-democracy campaigner.

Folger Consort

2011-10-05T07:55:00.004-05:00

I recently documented a rehearsal and concert of the Folger Consort, accompanied by Cathedra, at the Folger Shakespeare Library's intimate theater.

The founders and artistic directors of the Folger Consort are Robert Eisenstein (violin) and Christopher Kendall (lute, theorbo). Cathedra is conducted by Michael McCarthy.

Thanks to Tim Swoape of the Folger for his help and direction.

View more images from the performance here.

Four views of Alan Greenspan

2011-10-04T21:40:00.002-05:00

I recently photographed former Federal Reserve chair, Alan Greenspan.

'Nuff said.

Klezmatics: Live at Town Hall | CD cover

2011-08-17T10:39:00.003-05:00

The Klezmatics, the Grammy-winning avant-klezmer and world-music ensemble from New York, have just released their newest twin CD recording, "Live at Town Hall." I did the photographs for the cover and inside art.

Great folks, great great band... deep modern Yiddish and world soul music, played with tremendous verve, soul, fun, thought, and masterful authority.

The concert to celebrate the CD release is at the
Highline Ballroom
431 West 16th Street, New York NY 10011
Wednesday September 14, 2011, at 8:00 pm

Check out their Kickstarter program, to help get the good word out about this new music.

And check out their website.

Mazel tov!

ShakeMore 2011

2011-08-14T14:32:00.009-05:00

ShakeMore is an annual music (& other arts) festival/gathering, the dancing burbling brainchild of Jad and David Fair, of the band Half Japanese.

It occurred this year on the full moon, inside Sun Ra's suitcase, in the general vicinity of Inner and Outer Wigsville, bordering the hamlet of Leppoville, Maryland.

A splendid time was had by all.

This is what peace looks like.

Enjoy. All wonderful.

Wall /decay /transformation (Anacostia)

2011-07-26T14:48:00.003-05:00

I photographed some faded wall posters on Martin Luther King Jr. Ave, near the center of the historic section of Anacostia, in Washington DC.

Various transformations ensued.

American Investigations: funky building / Baltimore

2011-07-18T21:02:00.002-05:00

A garage in west Baltimore.

Happy

2011-07-18T20:55:00.002-05:00

Flowers in a special garden at St. Stephen's School, photographed for landscape architect Brian Kane, of the Kane Group, who designed the environment.

Emma in Lion Mask- The Sun magazine cover

2011-07-16T17:00:00.006-05:00

A photograph I made many years ago, of my daughter Emma wearing a lion mask, is about to grace the August cover of my favorite literary and photography magazine, The Sun.

Check The Sun out. It's arrival every month is a special pleasure; like having a treasured old, funny, wise, and funky friend come by for a visit.

People's Republic of Takoma Park 4th of July Parade 2011

2011-07-08T07:41:00.010-05:00

The annual Takoma Park, Maryland July Fourth parade - I dig it da mos'.

Photographed in black and white for the Takoma Park Newsletter. Glad to help.

More info on the parade is at: http://www.takomapark4th.org

And thanks to Dale D., for always hosting our little corner of the celebration with so much verve and grace.

Dana & Jazmin's party / Stephens City VA

2011-07-03T16:03:00.006-05:00

The girls turned four and thirteen.

Family, friends, summer, some singing, water, cake, & the smoke of old school barbeque...

Life. Passages.

SkillsUSA 2011

2011-06-27T15:33:00.009-05:00

Another year, twenty six now, covering the annual huge SkillsUSA conference in Kansas City.

Physically & mentally it's a wonder to behold; and endure.

All-American, and then some.

These images are what stayed with me... A carnival for the eyes.

Many thanks to the hardworking team I labor with at SkillsUSA; Tom Hall, Ann Schreiber, Tom Kercheval, and Craig Moore.

Sight music.

The Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson; King of Kosher Gospel

2011-06-26T12:46:00.005-05:00

The Klezmatics performed with Joshua Nelson, the King of Kosher Gospel, at the Washington DCJCC Music festival.

Music that soars and dances through your heart, and bursts headlong for the light...

Thanks to everyone in the Klezmatics, Joshua Nelson, Sir Chad Thorne, and the director of the Washington Jewish Music Festival, Lili Kalish Gersch.

Baruch HaShem.

Long Bridge Park / construction progress

2011-06-09T14:59:00.006-05:00

I have been documenting the construction progress of Long Bridge Park for Arlington County.

Though inintended, I have found the site to be a ripe source of visually-evocative material.

Thanks to project manager Eric Beach and on-site supervisor Steve Lucas, of the County, for their help.

More on Long Bridge Park.

Jamie / portraits

2011-06-06T09:55:00.006-05:00

I just made these portraits of Jamie Chavez, a lively, soulful seven year old, the son of my friend, Lisa McQuail.

Sarah McQuaid

2011-05-29T11:02:00.005-05:00

Ruth and I recently attended the last stop of the US concert tour of my old friend, Cornwall-based folksinger Sarah McQuaid.

Sarah's strong dark voice & beautifully-crafted soul-stirring music consistently weaves multi-dimensional aural spells.

More at her website www.sarahmcquaid.com

A new album is brewing.

DC / a few views from the street

2011-05-29T09:07:00.006-05:00

A few recent shots from DC's real deal & old school side... SE & NE.

In quiet homage to the inspiration & life of the great poet visionary Gil Scott Heron, RIP.

Machatonim simcha in honor of Sean & Marjorie / a gathering of tribes

2011-05-23T07:53:00.012-05:00

Ruth and I gathered with the the Miller family at their home near Philadelphia to celebrate the engagement of Ruth's daughter Marjorie to Sean Miller.

All happy, all good. A merging of clans. Much schmoozing, kvelling, noshing, naches, and very real support.

Note: in the wisest interest of shalom bayis, an interesting and amusing overheard snippet of conversation has been redacted from this post.

Jewish? And all to the good. Lovely folks. Proud and happy to enlarge the circle of family. Mishpoche.

Mazel tov to Sean and Marjorie. May your life together be blessed.

Red wall rectangle; versions #1 & #2 / 9th Street NW

2011-05-19T19:47:00.003-05:00

1500 block of 9th Street NW, Washington DC.

Mass

2011-05-12T13:07:00.000-05:00

I had the opportunity to photograph a special mass in the Crypt Church of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington DC.

Governor/Executive

2011-05-06T12:18:00.003-05:00

I photographed Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and Montgomery County Executive Isaiah Leggett at the Universities of Shady Grove's graduation ceremony yesterday.

Beer & Wine

2011-04-28T20:23:00.004-05:00

Sign, near the corner, in the 700 block of Columbia Road NW, Washington DC.

I was searching for a street memorial (a murder occurred in this block recently). I found this instead. Old school, but fresh.

My Mother

2011-04-25T14:58:00.004-05:00

I try to visit my mother, Lee Wolf, every week.

We couldn't go out to eat because it is Passover, and could not go for a walk either, as Canadian geese have nested in the garden of her residence. The geese are apparently rather aggressive in protecting their young.

So, we talked. As we are both prone to doing.

William Shakespeare's Birthday Party

2011-04-18T14:36:00.006-05:00

A few choice images from an assignment for the Folger Shakespeare Library. They put on a marvelous celebration every year in the Bard's honor.

William Shakespeare - All the world's a stage (from As You Like It 2/7)

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Amazing face

2011-04-16T15:34:00.003-05:00

From an editorial assignment at a high-school psychology science fair.

One of the presenters.

Straight shot.

Eleventh Street NW, DC

2011-04-16T15:25:00.004-05:00

A number of images that I found interesting on Eleventh Street NW, Washington DC, while out looking for a street memorial to Jose Hernandez-Romero.

Eyes open. Life is short.

And interesting.

April Fool 2011

2011-04-11T07:43:00.001-05:00

Annual report

Rocco Zappone

2011-04-06T12:40:00.001-05:00

Portrait of Rocco Zappone.

Book Hill / Georgetown

2011-04-06T12:05:00.005-05:00

Some outtakes from an assignment for the Washington Express on people in the Book Hill section of Georgetown.

Cherry trees at night

2011-04-06T11:54:00.003-05:00

Georgetown. Washington DC. Streetlight.

Beauty.

Polaroid Journal excerpts (from the vaults)

2011-03-31T20:29:00.005-05:00

For many years I kept a journal composed of polaroid images. I scanned these today.

This set is all from the 199o's

More about this work.

They don't make this film anymore... blogging has replaced the old handmade books.

It is what it is, and it ain't what it ain't. (Thanks to a lyric by Kevin Dudley)the 1990's

Newborn, mojo, a gambler, and handcuffs (from the vaults)

2011-03-31T20:22:00.005-05:00

I just scanned four unrelated images from my files. They make a kind of sense to me today...

The baby is from a newborn unit in a hospital a while back, the woman gesturing powerfully was at a union gathering I covered, the gambler studying the racing forms was at Laurel Raceway in Maryland , and the handcuffs were on a wall at a prison in Baltimore.

All these photographs are outtakes from assignments

Crows over Przemysl/Red Thread (from the vaults)

2011-03-31T20:07:00.005-05:00

My grandparents came from Bachow, a shtetl near the now-Polish city of Przemysl. My daughter and I traveled there in 1998.

These crows appeared in the graying sky as we first emerged from our vehicle, they were almost directly over Bachow.

Most of the family left in the great Jewish emigration at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Some made it to Israel after World War II, but many perished in the Holocaust.

This material is from the project Red Thread.

There is an excellent blog chronicling the history of the Jews of Przemysl.
http://przemysl.blogspot.com

Southwestern light/mysteries (from the vaults)

2011-03-31T20:03:00.002-05:00

Images from Big Bend, Texas and northern New Mexico, mid 1970's.

Wide open mind...

Soul Parking (from the vaults)

2011-03-31T19:57:00.005-05:00

This sign was posted for years on 14th Street NW, Washington DC, just below Florida Avenue.

I heard some wannabe hipster DJ made off with it for their show a while back. Figures.

Nyabinghi Elders (from the vaults)

2011-03-31T19:49:00.003-05:00

The Nyabinghi serve as wise elders to the Rastafarian community.

I photographed these men in Washington on assignment for the Washington City Paper.

True true true.

Two dogs (from the vaults)

2011-03-31T19:44:00.002-05:00

Photographs from 1974 and 1997: Dizzy (barking), and my raffish Scottish terrier, Paddy Day, getting in my face.

Noise.

Operation Understanding DC / Class 17 training

2011-03-29T23:48:00.008-05:00

The seventeenth year of this outstanding diversity education program for DC-area Jewish and African American high school students.
Visit www.oudc.org

Hoyer / Vilsack - assignment

2011-03-22T15:03:00.002-05:00

I photographed the House Minority Whip, Congressman Steny Hoyer, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for the Appalachian Regional Commission today.

Flashmob outtakes

2011-03-22T14:55:00.004-05:00

A few images that stayed with me from a recent assignment in DC for Advocates for Youth.

I Saw The Letter F in the Gutter

2011-03-18T08:17:00.006-05:00

Seen near the site of a street shrine to Henry Kelly on Buena Vista Terrace, in SE Washington DC.

Homage to Charles Demuth's I Saw The Figure 5 in Gold, inspired by William Carlos Williams poem, "The Great Figure":

"Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city"

And, here, I found the letter F, in the gutter, a few sad steps from a murder site...

Blue light special

2011-03-14T19:53:00.002-05:00

My kitchen window today.

Face / Light

2011-03-14T19:34:00.001-05:00

Photographed at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week...

Mila Helena / new love miracle

2011-02-05T16:42:00.009-05:00

I had the privilege to photograph the arrival of Mila Helena Hanley, the daughter of my friends Xang Mimi Ho and Marcus Hanley.

She was born during a snowstorm on the afternoon of January 28th, 2011.

Welcome.

And blessings upon the holy miracle of new life.

Blessed are You, Adonai, Creator of the Universe, who has granted us life, sustained us and enabled us to reach this occasion.

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ אֶלוֹהֵינו מֶלֶך הַעוֹלָם שֵהֵחְיָנוּ וְקִיְמָנו וְהִגִיעָנוּ לַזְמַן הַזֶה

Year of the Rabbit

2011-02-05T16:23:00.008-05:00

This is the year of the Rabbit. A Chinese New Year Dragon Dance celebration was held at Pure Media Sign Studio, 768 S. 23rd Street, Arlington VA 22202.
Owner Lin Ong hosted a very festive community event. Thank you Lin!

GUNG HEI FAT CHOY!!!

http://www.PureMediaSigns.com

Woman waiting -Forida Avenue & N. Capitol Street NW, Washington DC

2011-02-01T09:30:00.002-05:00

My daughter/ view from home / sock vision extrapolation

2011-01-18T16:58:00.006-05:00

Portraits of my daughter, the day after she turned twenty seven.

Plus, a night image of the view from her home, and a sock-collage-thing, based on a simple image of, well, socks.

Her excellent illustration website can be viewed at:
http://skywolfstudio.com/home.html

Rosslyn Magazine cover assignment

2011-01-12T12:45:00.004-05:00

A recent cover depicting the grand opening of the Artisphere in Arlington, VA that I created on assignment for the Rosslyn BID.

www.rosslynva.org

Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

2011-01-05T15:06:00.003-05:00

I just created an new artist's book "Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," which consists of three quietly elegiac black-and-white cantos of images, inspired by and as a legacy to, photographer and engineer Carl Dahlke.

The title is an extrapolation and further exploration of seeing, suggested by Wallace Steven's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Lloyd Wolf | Make Your Own Book

Recent cover assignment / The Myth of the Model Minority

2010-12-29T14:44:00.004-05:00

Cover photograph I made for Independent School magazine, working on assignment for TMG's superb graphic designer, Glenn Pierce.

Da Fleet DMV

2010-12-29T14:29:00.006-05:00

Images I made recently for Da Fleet DMV, an up and coming rap group, consisting of lyricmaster Dion Johnson, beat-creator William Gunn, plus Philip Morris, and Leron Twyman.

Listen to the flow... Let's get it in

DCJCC volunteer day of service: December 24th 2010

2010-12-28T14:07:00.006-05:00

Volunteers from the DC Jewish Community Center, helping out across the city on Christmas eve.

Please vist:
http://www.washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer
Thank you to Erica Steen, Randy Bacon, and Gena Schoen of the DCJCC for their leadership, energy, and help.

I was ably assisted, again, by Ruth Stromberg.

Pictured sites include Charley's Place, the Father McKenna Center, Food and Friends, DC Central Kitchen, Unity Health Care, CCNV, Rachel's Womens Shelter, The Residence at Thomas Circle, Change Inc., and the DCJCC blood drive.

Road lights /motion

2010-12-28T13:59:00.001-05:00

From another day on the road

Writing with light. Basics.

Road Suite / Allegheny Dreaming

2010-12-28T13:43:00.008-05:00

A winter's drive with Ruth to central Pennsylvania.

The photographs are sequenced in the order they were made.

Imamyar Hasanov, Azeri Musician

2010-12-28T13:24:00.004-05:00

A portrait of the renowned Azerbaijani musician, Imamyar Hasanov. The instrument he plays is a kamancha.

His website is:
http://www.kamancha.com

Thanks to Diana Cohen Altman and Farzin Farzad of the Karabakh Foundation for the opportunity to experience this exceptional musician.
http://www.karabakhfoundation.org

Three portraits, and some shoes

2010-12-28T13:18:00.003-05:00

Recent portraits of my friends Shaun Van Steyn, Aleksandra Lagkueva, and Ruth's daughter, Marjorie Stromberg; and Marjorie's shoes on the floor of her new home.

Snow Elegy: Suite for Carl Dahlke

2010-12-17T21:25:00.009-05:00

These photographs are made in honor and remembrance of Carl Dahlke, photographer and engineer, who passed away on November 6th, 2010.

The images were made while it was still snowing, with a camera I was bequeathed from Carl's extraordinary collection of fine instruments.

They are presented in the order they were seen.

Thank you Carl. Thank you Clare.

Please visit Carl's photography website:
http://www.blackbird13.com

His obituary in the Washington Post is here:
http://wapo.st/i5AVnx

The Empress of Chanukah

2010-12-17T21:20:00.003-05:00

The Reigning Empress of Chanukah, Martha Katz.

She throws a great party... latkes to die for.

Faded/Glory

2010-11-27T14:30:00.003-05:00

I have produced a new artist's book, Faded/Glory.

It is available at:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1774598

Faded / Glory by Lloyd Wolf | Make Your Own Book

Martinez Sisters- St. Dennis Apartments, DC

2010-11-20T11:58:00.004-05:00

I recently photographed the groundbreaking event for refurbishing the St. Dennis Apartments in Washington DC, which were saved by the tenacity of two Martinez sisters, and their mother. I was working on assignment for Enterprise Community Partners, which provided aid and financial expertise to the effort.

from press reports:
The Martinez family refused to move from their apartment on Kenyon Street NW, Washington DC, in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, when the previous owner emptied the
building through poor management and "buy-offs," in order to convert it into
market-rate condominiums. Eva Martinez and her two daughters, Eva Aurora and Anabel, remained the lone tenants in the building for more than two years, enduring broken doors and windows, demolition crews, unlit hallways, and other hazards all because of
their staunch belief that low income people deserved the right to remain in the
Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. With the assistance of pro-bono counsel, the Martinez's filed several suits against the owner for failure to comply with D.C.'s right of first purchase law. They secured a settlement that included the option to purchase the property at market value and chose the National Housing Trust-Enterprise Preservation Corporation (NHT/Enterprise) to assist in securing the financing to acquire and renovate the property. Low income families, many of whom had endured deplorable living conditions at the property, will soon be able to enjoy fully renovated, energy efficient affordable apartments. The preservation and renovation of the St. Dennis was made possible due to the tenacity of the Martinez family who refused to be forced from their neighborhood.

Pictured are Eva Aurora and Anabel Martinez. Their tenacious mother passed away before this dream became a reality, but her daughters and others will benefit from her strength.

The print of the Last Supper was one of the few objects left in their apartment after the previous owner had emptied the building.

A 2008 Washington Post article about their story is at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803174.html

Major Pamela Novy, US Army

2010-11-18T22:28:00.004-05:00

Major Novy counsels families and soldiers who have lost loved ones or comrades in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
These portraits were made in Arlington National Cemetery, on assignment for the American Psychological Association's Monitor magazine.